Monday, May 31, 2010

All you need to know is this: Bills was awful, then he was great. The Dodgers were down 4-2 going into the eighth, but tied it up on two unearned runs courtesy of D'backs second baseman Kelly Johnson. The Dodgers had first and second with nobody out in the ninth, but Loney tried to pull a Johnny Damon by stealing an unattended third base. Didn't work. Martin advanced Casey Blake to third and...remember when Blake called out Ted Lilly for balking? This time he baited D'backs reliver Esmerling Vasquez into balking in the game-winning run. Walk-off balk. All hail the Beard!

I'm with Lyons here, I don't know why that was called a balk. DeWitt wasn't in the box, the catcher was standing up, the pitcher decides to step off the rubber and point at 3rd. Doesn't seem very balky but I'll take it!

8.01(a) The Windup Position. The pitcher shall stand facing the batter, his pivot foot in contact with the pitcher’s plate and the other foot free. From this position any natural movement associated with his delivery of the ball to the batter commits him to the pitch without interruption or alteration. He shall not raise either foot from the ground, except that in his actual delivery of the ball to the batter, he may take one step backward, and one step forward with his free foot.

I stole all his taco bell nachos back in the day. Oh wait that was Weaver.

Sad day for Fresno State baseball. We didn't make a regional for the first time since 05 and only the 3rd time in 20 years. 08's national championship and me ending up Half passed And cheering at the dog house seem so far away.

has anybody else noticed that Matty uses Dre's bats and Dre was using one of Matt's bats last night? Dre broke his first bat during the game, the one with the tape on the knob, and he took a new bat with "27" on the knob. Matty's been using bats with "16" on the end for a while now, maybe all season